Andrew Chatterton
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Not so much in the summer because the undergrowth is just too thick.
So we tend to go kind of autumn, winter.
So we know, especially the auxiliary units, because of this list was made, we can kind of group guys together who have similar addresses and
and then try and work out where their bunk and mice have been.
Or they tend to be at the north point of the town.
They tend to congregate around the north point of a town.
You kind of look up there and then you look for, well, actually there's a railway junction there.
Isn't it just so... Then you kind of look at it.
It's unbelievable.
It's unbelievable, yeah.
It's completely addictive.
completely we found one uh in colleton um near me just by seeing where their addresses were and then working out and then we did some i did like a newspaper article saying don't suppose anyone's fallen down a bunker recently that you know uh and then someone came forward got a strange hold in my
in the wood I own and we went up there and there it was with some air vents sticking out and actually that one was amazing because it had a really tall pine tree and the patrol had hammered in these spikes so high up as an observation post so they climb up this tree the stakes were still in
And you could look right over towards the river Axe coming out in the sea, and you could see right up the valley.
So some guy would be up there as the Germans came through.
He'd be able to go back down and say, right, they're coming.
There's a convoy parked there.
There's an ammo dump there.
We need to destroy that railway junction up there.
And that's still in place.